The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 151
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full of his days. 11 And all the
generations which will arise
from this time until the day
of the great judgment will
grow old quickly, before they
complete two jubilees, and
their knowledge will forsake
them by reason of their old age
Bracketed [and all their knowledge will
words a
dittograph. vanish away]. 12 And in those
days, if a man live a jubilee
and a half of years, they will
say regarding him: “He hath
lived long, and the greater
part of his days are pain and
Cf. Ps. 90:10
sorrow and tribulation, and
there is no peace: 13 For
calamity followeth on calamity,
and wound on wound, and
tribulation on tribulation, and
evil tidings on evil tidings,
and illness on illness, and all
evil judgments such as these,
one with another, illness and
overthrow, and snow and
frost and ice, and fever, and
Such chills, and torpor, and famine,
misfortunes
are not and death, and sword, and
limited to the
Hellenistic captivity, and all kinds of
era. To say
so is illiterate. calamities and pains.”
14 And all these will come
on an evil generation, which
transgresseth on the earth:
their works are uncleanness
and fornication, and pollution
Cf. 7:21, and abominations. 15 Then
20:5, 22:16
they will say: “The days of
the forefathers were many
(even), unto a thousand years,
100 years.
Noah and the
patriarchs
before the
Flood did
not age as
quickly as
modern
man. We
also lose our
faculties but
the patriarchs
did not.
D E A T H
and were good; but, behold,
the days of our life, if a man
hath lived many, are three
score years and ten, and, if
he is strong, four score years,
and those evil and there is no
peace in the days of this evil
generation.” 16 And in that
generation the sons will convict
their fathers and their elders of
sin and unrighteousness, and
of the words of their mouth
and the great wickednesses
which they perpetrate, and
concerning their forsaking the
covenant which Yahuah made
between them and Him,
that they should observe and
do all His commandments
and His ordinances and all
His laws, without departing
either to the right hand or
to the left. 17 For all have
done evil, and every mouth
speaketh iniquity and all their
works are an uncleanness
and an abomination, and
all their ways are pollution,
uncleanness and destruction.
The Messianic Woes
(23:18-25). [Eschatological partly.]
18 Behold the earth will be
destroyed on account of all
their works, and there will
be no seed of the vine, and
no oil; for their works are
altogether faithless, and they
will all perish together,
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Cf. Ps. 90:10.
Abraham,
Isaac and
Jacob lived
in Canaan,
an evil and
perverse land
in their era.
This context
is 2000
years before
Hellenism
and not
associated.
Cf. Dt. 10:3132, 28:14
